Podcast
One project I’ve begun as Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, 2025-2027, is Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that originally airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 somewhere around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Each week I read a poem that might highlight an upcoming poetry event or spotlight a former SB Poet Laureate or offer a work that fits the time of year.
This page will archive the segments celebrating the wide world of poetry after each one airs.
(The musical background bed for all episodes of PPtC is Yo La Tengo’s “I Heard You Looking.”)
Episode 37
(originally aired January 13, 2026)
Franny Choi, “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On”
Episode 36
(originally aired January 6, 2026)
Lee Herrick, “My California”
Episode 35
(originally aired December 30, 2025)
Dorothy Parker, “Recurrence”
Episode 34
(originally aired December 23, 2025)
Mary Karr, “The New Year”
Episode 33
(originally aired December 16, 2025)
Sharyn November, “Christmas”
Episode 32
(originally aired December 9, 2025)
Emily Jungmin Yoon, “Between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Today”
Episode 31
(originally aired December 2, 2025)
Ellen Bass, “The World Has Need of You”
Episode 30
(originally aired November 25, 2025)
Maggie Dietz, “November”
Episode 29
(originally aired November 18, 2025)
Pat Mora, “Ode to Teachers”
Episode 28
(originally aired November 11, 2025)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Pity the Nation”
Episode 27
(originally aired October 4, 2025)
Rita Dove, “November for Beginners”
Episode 26
(originally aired October 28, 2025)
Linda Gregerson, “Line Drive Caught by the Grace of God”
Episode 25
(originally aired October 21, 2025)
Elaine Equi, “Ghosts and Fashion”
Episode 24
(originally aired October 14, 2025)
Stanley Plumly, “Out-of-the-Body Travel”
Episode 23
(originally aired October 7, 2025)
Karina Borowicz, “September Tomatoes”
Episode 22
(originally aired September 30, 2025)
Arthur Sze, “Architect’s Watercolor”
Episode 21
(originally aired September 23, 2025)
Rodney Jones, “Sweep”
Episode 20
(originally aired September 16, 2025)
Perie Longo, “Opposites”
Episode 19
(originally aired September 9, 2025)
Joy Harjo, “When the World as We Knew It Ended”
Episode 18
(originally aired September 2, 2025)
Diane Lockward, “For the Love of Avocados”
Episode 17
(originally aired August 26, 2025)
Paisley Rekdal, “The Touch”
Episode 16
(originally aired August 19, 2025)
Jack Gilbert, “A Brief for the Defense”
Episode 15
(originally aired August 12, 2025)
Dana Alsamsam, “The Day Before Moving Day”
Episode 14
(originally aired August 5, 2025)
Elizabeth Alexander, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe”
Episode 13
(originally aired July 29, 2025)
Rafael Campo, “Cardiology”
Episode 12
(originally aired July 22, 2025)
Rebecca Hoogs, “Another Plot Cliché”
Episode 11
(originally aired July 15, 2025)
Juliana Gray, “The Surfers”
Episode 10
(originally aired July 8, 2025)
Gregory Djanikian, “Immigrant Picnic”
Episode 9
(originally aired July 1, 2025)
Li-Young Lee, “From Blossoms”
Episode 8
(originally aired June 24, 2025)
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, “Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem”
Episode 7
(originally aired June 17, 2025)
Paul Willis, June in Santa Barbara”
Episode 6
(originally aired June 10, 2025)
Linda Pastan, “Imaginary Conversation”
Episode 5
(originally aired June 3, 2025)
Thomas Lux, “The Swimming Pool”
Episode 4
(originally aired May 27, 2025)
Deirdre O’Connor, “Bogle”
Episode 3
(originally aired May 20, 2025)
Valentina Gnup, “My Life Flashes Before Me at Edward Hopper’s Painting, Gas, 1940”
Episode 2
(originally aired May 13, 2025)
Ross Gay, “A Poem in Which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me”
Episode 1
(originally aired May 6, 2025)